Israel army on alert on Syria, Lebanon border

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The location of the camp in Syria’s Aleppo province has not been disclosed.

The Islamic State killed 50 regime troops in Raqqah and forced regime forces to abandon Division 17; at least 28 IS fighters have been killed in the clashes. The Islamic State also battled regime forces in Homs and Aleppo. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Deraa, Reef Dimashq, and Damascus. Al Nusrah ambushed regime troops near a military airport in Idlib. The Islamic Front fought regime forces in Aleppo, Hama, Damascus, and Deraa. Al Nusrah released a video featuring American suicide bomber Moner Mohammad Abu Salha (a.k.a. Abu Hurayra al Amriki), who blew…

Syria becoming home to two competing Islamic states

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The Islamic State clashed with regime forces in Hasakah, where it used NDF fighters and three suicide bombers to storm a Ba’ath headquarters in Hasakah city, killing at least 14 soldiers; arrested people in western Deir Izzour; battled the Islamic Front and Jabhat al-Akrad in Ikhtren, and fought the Kurdish YPG near Jarabalus in Aleppo; and took over the chemistry battalion in the 17th division after clashes and two car bomb attacks against regime forces in Raqqah, and also beheaded six soldiers and displayed their heads in Raqqah city. A general was killed in the fighting, and the regime conducted…

Syrian government forces launch offensive in key Damascus suburb

Losses for Syrian regime rise sharply

The Islamic State clashed with regime forces in Raqqah and Hama; battled YPG forces and the Islamic Front in Aleppo; and opened fire on anti-IS protesters in Deir Izzour. The Al Nusrah Front issued a statement denouncing the “spoilers” who exploit the conflict situation by depriving Muslims of food and other necessities, as well as those “subservient” to the US and the Syrian National Coalition. In the Golan border area of Deraa and Quneitra, Al Nusrah stormed the headquarters of the Jund Al Haramen brigade and one of its battalions as part of Al Nusrah’s campaign against the “spoilers.” Al…

Why Islamic State is no al Qaeda clone

In a Syrian City, ISIS Puts Its Vision Into Practice

The Islamic Front, a coalition of several leading insurgent groups in Syria, has issued a statement rejecting any attempt by its fellow insurgency groups to unilaterally create a new government.

Al Nusrah Front seizes Syrian town on Turkish border

Al Qaeda group seizes Syrian town on Turkish border

Gloves come off between Syrian regime, Islamic State

Islamic State jihadists sell Syrian oil to Iraqi businessmen

ISIS gains highlight ‘aggressive’ use of water as weapon of war

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Watchmen guard Ras Baalbek against attacks

The Islamic State beheaded a man in Raqqah; blew up some houses in Deir Izzour; clashed with the Islamic Front and rebels in Damascus; battled regime special forces around the Sha’er gas field in Homs, where some 60 soldiers were killed; and fought against the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and Kurdish YPG forces in Aleppo, where the IS is massing reinforcements for attacks on Ayn al Arab. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama, Damascus, Reef Dimashq, Homs, and Aleppo. The Islamic Front’s Ahrar al Sham clashed with the Free Syrian Army’s Harakat Hazm…

More Western fighters joining militants in Iraq and Syria

The Islamic State clashed with regime forces near the Sha’er gas field in Homs; bombarded regime-held areas near Al Mab’oje in Hama; clashed with regime forces by Kweris airport, and killed five Islamic Front fighters in a suicide bombing in Aleppo; battled the Islamic Front outside Yilda in Reef Dimashq; stoned two women to death for alleged adultery in Raqqah; and clashed with regime forces in Deir Izzour, where the IS was joined by some Islamic Front fighters. The IS also killed 24 men arrested at the Koniko oilfield, and whipped five men for smoking in Deir Izzour. The Al…

Al Nusrah Front, Islamic State compete for foreign fighters

The Raqqah Division of the Islamic State stoned two women to death purportedly for committing adultery.

In Iraq, Syria, militants try to govern as a state

Can ISIS maintain its self-declared caliphate?
